We have local branches around the world to serve our corporate clients. Later systems using teleprinters were semi-automatic, using punched paper tape to receive, store, and retransmit messages. The second unit consisted of all the non-strategic communications assets such as the long distance analog voice network, satellite business and undersea cable assets. Singing telegrams followed in 1933, intercity fax in 1935, and commercial intercity microwave communications in 1943. Former headquarters of WU, located at 60 Hudson, New York, NY, USA, in the early and middle 20th century
In 1914 Western Union offered the first charge card for consumers; in 1923 it introduced teletypewriters to join its branches.